Today we have a very important announcement. Please join me in first glance at the official Intramuralist platform, should we ever initiate a run for public office. (Note: the word “should” is highly significant in that last sentence). I will be as concise as possible. Politicians would be wise to operate on a similar principle...
1. BUDGET/ECONOMIC PLANK
At no time will we spend money we do not possess.
2. DEFICIT PLANK
We will pay back what we owe.
3. SOCIAL PLANK
Policy debates will begin by establishing common ground.
4. MILITARY PLANK
Force will be used only after all peaceful alternatives have been seriously tried and exhausted or are clearly not practical. The reason for going to war needs to be just, and the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.
5. FOREIGN POLICY PLANK
We will treat all nations with compassion and respect. Respect, however, does not equate to an acceptance of indigenous behavior as appropriate for our nation, as well.
6. EDUCATION PLANK
Every child should have access to a safe and solid learning environment. Teachers should be paid well; however, teachers should not attain tenure simply due to length of employment. They must be good at what they do.
7. JUDICIAL PLANK
Judges will be appointed to interpret the meaning of a law, to decide whether a law is relevant to a particular set of facts, or to rule on how a law should be applied. They will leave creation of law to the legislative branch, as directed by the U.S. Constitution.
8. CONSTITUTIONAL PLANK
As a republic, we will embrace the 10th Amendment, saying: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
9. RE-ELECTION PLANK
We will never run for a second term in the midst of term number one.
(And last but not least...) 10. INDEPENDENCE PLANK
We will remember that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Pursuing happiness... today by imagining how our representatives should behave in office. (Note: the word “should” is highly significant in that last sentence).
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If you "should ever initiate a run for public office" and run on this well stated "plank," count on my vote. You'll have to make it a national office or aid my move to Ohio.
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